The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler

'Open-hearted, compelling and brilliantly researched.'
JANE RAWSON, author of From the Wreck
and A History of Dreams

ON A BALMY TOWNSVILLE NIGHT
IN 1944, YOUNG SERVICEMAN WARWICK MEALE
IS FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH UNDER A BRIDGE.
The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation
and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on,
Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases
the leads that were there all along.

The Boy in the Dress delicately exhumes secrets of life on the
home front during World War II, where tensions between
soldiers boiled over, new expression of sexuality flourished
and the threat of invasion catapulted the status quo into disarray.

The truth of this family legend, and little-known
chapter in Australian military history, is more complex
and engrossing than anyone could have imagined.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - True Crime - History - War - Biography
Condition: Very good
Published: Published 2022 by Affirm Press
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9781922626943
Weight: 390g